Article 6 (c) of the Charter. As a result,
"murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other
inhumane acts" and "persecutions on political, racial, or
religious grounds" in connection with this occupation constitute
a Crime against Humanity under that Article.

As Gauleiter of Vienna, Von Schirach came under the Sauckel
decree, dated 6 April 1942, making the Gauleiters Sauckel's
plenipotentiaries for manpower with authority to supervise the
utilization and treatment of manpower within their Gaue. Sauckel's
directives provided that the forced laborers were to be fed,
sheltered, and treated so as to exploit them to the highest possible
degree at the lowest possible expense.

When Von Schirach became Gauleiter of Vienna the deportation of
the Jews had already been begun, and only 60,000 out of Vienna's
original 190,000 Jews remained. On 2 October 1940 he attended a
conference at Hitler's office and told Frank that he had 50,000 Jews
in Vienna which the General Government would have to take over from
him. On 3 December 1940 Von Schirach received a letter from Lammers
stating that after the receipt of the reports made by Von Schirach,
Hitler had decided to deport the 60,000 Jews still remaining in
Vienna to the General Government because of the housing shortage in
Vienna. The deportation of the Jews from Vienna was then begun and
continued until the early fall of 1942. On 15 September 1942 Von
Schirach made a speech in which he defended his action in having
driven "tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of Jews into
the ghetto of the East" as "contributing to European
culture".

While the Jews were being deported from Vienna, reports,
addressed to him in his official capacity, were received in Von
Schirach's office from the office of the Chief of the Security Police
and SD which contained a description of the activities of
Einsatzgruppen in exterminating Jews. Many of these reports were
initialed by one of Von Schirach's principal deputies. On 30 June
1944 Von Schirach's office also received a letter from Kaltenbrunner
informing him that a shipment of 12,000 Jews was on its way to Vienna
for essential war work and that all those who were incapable of work
would have to be kept in readiness for "special action".

The Tribunal finds that Von Schirach, while he did not originate
the policy of deporting Jews from Vienna, participated in this
deportation after he had become Gauleiter of Vienna. He knew that the
best the Jews could hope for was a miserable existence in the ghettos
of the East. Bulletins describing the Jewish extermination were in
his office.

While Gauleiter of Vienna Von Schirach continued to function as
Reichsleiter for Youth Education and in this capacity he was